Use note4 as navigation in my car

[Kelly Kearns]

I have a large Garmin in my car. I don't remember the screen size, but it is bigger than most GPS people buy and out on their car. I've started using my N4 some as navigation. It is taking some getting used to for me. My Garmin is much easier to glance at, so rarely use voice. When I do, it comes through my car speakers and easier to hear. I prefer my Garmin with the larger screen.

I just use Google maps on my N4 and find it to be just as accurate and sometimes more detailed and the most up to date info. I have to update my maps every so often on my car GPS.

 

[KahneFan]

Navdy looks pretty cool and would be an awesome option... as long as it's legit. I would love to pre-order for $200 off retail, but maybe it's like some of these other tech items that just continually pre-order, but never ship?

 

[Nostromo79]

Navdy looks pretty cool and would be an awesome option... as long as it's legit. I would love to pre-order for $200 off retail, but maybe it's like some of these other tech items that just continually pre-order, but never ship?

Interesting that I'd see you post after a year and a half. I pre-ordered a Navdy in August of 2014 and just this morning I received notification that it has shipped. So, 829 days after I submitted my paid pre-order I'll have it in my grubby mitts at long last on November 30, 2016. I hope it's as good as their Facebook page is portraying. I'm getting kinda psyched now.

 

[daiwolf]

i used to have a build in nav from garmin in my previous car.
il just try and use my phone as a navigator !

i can pick up my car this friday and the same day we go on vacation so i can test it

if it fails, i let my husky's tell me the directions

Lol that's cute

 

[Duard]

I'm using Google Maps on my Note 4 for Nav in my Ford with Sync 3, which can connect to Android Auto. It gives really good turn by turn voice directions over the car radio speakers and takes voice commands ("take me home"). Two modes are available: One is the Ford Nav screen with the routing provided by Gmaps, the other is the straight Gmaps user interface. The Ford UI is less good at detours; using the Gmaps UI I can just turn wherever I want and if there's a reasonable route that goes that way Gmaps will switch to it. On the Ford UI, if you turn off from the recommended route the Nav will show you haw to get back onto the recommended route (turn left here. OK, turn left at the next light. OK, here comes another left). Gmaps has its best performance if you let it have access to wireless data; as an alternative you can pre-download all the mapping data for your neighborhood(s), don't forget to refresh it every month.

 

[natehoy]

The Ford UI is less good at detours; using the Gmaps UI I can just turn wherever I want and if there's a reasonable route that goes that way Gmaps will switch to it. On the Ford UI, if you turn off from the recommended route the Nav will show you haw to get back onto the recommended route (turn left here. OK, turn left at the next light. OK, here comes another left).

My Magellan Meridian Color used to do that. In its defense, it was 2003 and handheld GPS units were pretty new at the time.

Kinda sad that 13 years later the kind of computing horsepower you can install in an automobile can't do better than that. LOL

 

[Jay Sacks]

I have paid for apps in the past. Google has the best live traffic reports. Even better since they purchased Waze. But I will admit copilot for instance is much prettier.

 

[Nostromo79]

Navdy looks pretty cool and would be an awesome option... as long as it's legit. I would love to pre-order for $200 off retail, but maybe it's like some of these other tech items that just continually pre-order, but never ship?

The whole arc of Navdy saw it whimper to an end a couple of years ago. I would have sworn that it was feeding back into the ECM to wake a host of electronic gremlins but I may have had a low-voltage problem after all causing my electric power steering to act-up about two months after I began using Navdy. The potential was almost limitless but it kinda died in the incubator of new user experiences. Navdy worked well when it did work.